About the Van Society

The Van Society was founded on May 9 2014 and started off as a small crew of PS3 GTAO players. On May 25th of the same year Retired-Mafia of GTA Forums created a topic called Heist Preperation. It was a meet up topic for fellow players that where interested in doing robbery sprees in vans. The topic started to get a lot of interest and soon the first event plans were made and used in crew sessions. The plans started to contain more detail and a better story from then on. After years of hosting events we’ve established a fun and active group of players. the topic is no longer called “Heist Preparation” it is now called The Van Society.

Van Society Clubhouse

Our Clubhouse is the perfect place to relax and get away from the chaotic city. Besides that it’s a great place meet up spot to get players together in free roam before an event starts. You can find the Clubhouse on the exclusive Vinewood Lake Estate.

Make sure to test out the diving board!

Van Society Clubhouse

Van Society Events

We are now a well established crew focused on the PS4 for mature gamers who like to approach GTAO from a different angle to most too get the most of the game. Since the beginning of this crew we’ve been hosting events every week. At this later stage in the games life we are no longer grinding everyday or tearing around in free-roam but still put on an at least one event every week which is when we all meet up to game together.

Our events are usually car based and include Street Racing, Track Racing, Off Road Racing, Rallying and our Top Gear Challenges including Class War, Reasonably Priced Car, Mystery Car, Head 2 Head Racing.

Clash of the Crews

The Van Society also takes part in the Clash of the Crews competition run by the Domestic Battery Crew. This is a well established multi-crew competition covering all aspects of GTAO from DM’s to Races to Overtime Rumble.

User Created Jobs

The Van Society also has some fantastic Creators that have put together high quality Race, Deathmatch and Capture jobs that we use in our events and to share with others. You can keep track of these and some other great jobs from other creators.

Get Involved

VANS are always looking for new members so if you are looking to join pop into to our thread on GTA Forums to say hi if you want to get involved, don’t forget to leave you PSN ID, Timezone and a bit of info about yourself. We do most of our gaming in European time zone and are looking for gamers who liked to try something different to a playlist of DM’s, Adversary Modes or R* Stunt Races.

Most of our events are open to all members of GTA Forums (where we promote and run our events), so if you see something you would like to join in with and get involved just ask.

What We Play

We have also started to branch out into other games and now host regular Gran Turismo Sport Events. You will also find our members playing Battlefront, Battlefield, Fortnite, No Man’s Sky and a few other popular titles.

This Months Events

Come and join us on Wednesday 3rd October for our Classico Sporto Italiano racing event. We will run a night of racing using the Italian cars available, every driver needs to pick one car each and hopefully no duplicates.

Classico Sporto Italiano Cars

Grotti Turismo ClassicGrotti Cheetah Classic

Pegassi Infernus ClassicPegassi ToreroPegassi Monroe

Lampadati Viseris

Don’t worry about picking a slower vehicle as you wont be driving it all night.

This Wednesday we are running a GTA Creator Night. We will be running up to 10 new races we have not used before from well known and new creators. Feel free to suggest a new race for us to try as long as it’s not one we have used before.To level the playing field a little the most OP cars from each class will be banned, for example no Pariahs to be used when racing Sports Class. We will run GTA races so we can spawn in cars for those who do not have them, the banned cars will be listed on the night.

No need to sign up for this one, just drop us a message if you want to get involved or to suggest a race.

Come and join us on Wednesday 17th October at 20:00 BST for Dorifuto Night. To celebrate the release of liveries for the Karin Futo we are going to get together for a fun night of racing and more in what is one of the Van Society’s favourite cars in the game.All you need to take part is a Futo. Your car will be judged on style before your handling and then racing skills are put to the test.

The usual rules apply, don’t bring the emergency services to the meet, do not bring guns, drive clean and don’t be a bellend.

This week we will run a Top Gear Challenge pitting German efficiency against Italian style to see whose cars come out on top in GTAO. Pick a country when you sign up to race with Benefactor, Ubermacht and Pfister or Grotti, Pegassi and Lampadati.

Top Gear Challenge: Germany vs Italy

We will run races in Compact, Coupes, Sports and Super classes, we can spawn in cars for those who do not own them. All cars of German and Italian makes are eligible to race, for a quick guide the ‘fastest’ cars for each class are listed below. We will race each class twice, where possible race a different car for each race.